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1. Recuperação de Mais-Valias Fundiárias na América Latina

   Políticas e Instrumentos para o Desenvolvimento Urbano
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Setembro 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

2. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

3. Lessons from Sandy

   Federal Policies to Build Climate-Resilient Coastal Regions
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Abril 2014
   Robert Pirani and Laura Tolkoff

   This report, spurred by aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, identifies a set of policies, regulations, and administrative practices that federal agencies can adopt to help coastal metropolitan regions...

4. Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina

   Políticas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbano
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Fevereiro 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

5. Arrested Developments

   Combating Zombie Subdivisions and Other Excess Entitlements
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Janeiro 2014
   Jim Holway, Don Elliott, and Anna Trentadue

   Drawing on case studies, survey results, and data analyses of abandoned residential development projects in the U.S. Intermountain West, this report shows local leaders how to identify and overcome...

6. Conservation Catalysts

   The Academy as Nature’s Agent
   Livros
   Novembro 2014
   Edited by James N. Levitt with a foreword by Stephen Woodley

   “We can gain encouragement from the coalition of groups that have rallied together to promote conservation and embrace connectivity: universities, environmental groups, land trusts, churches,...

7. Education, Land, and Location

   Livros
   Maio 2014
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Daphne A. Kenyon

   Because most children throughout the world attend elementary and secondary schools near their homes, where they live usually determines where they go to school. In the United States, the relationship...

8. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

   Livros
   Abril 2014
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

   Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...

9. Is Location Fate?

   Distributional Aspects of Schooling
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2014
   Eric Hanushek

   Eric A. Hanushek analyzes the impact of human capital on economic outcomes, arguing that cognitive skills are a better measure of human capital than years of schooling. He focuses on urban schools...

10. School Quality, School Choice, and Residential Mobility

    Artigos de Conferências
    Maio 2014
    Eric Brunner

    Eric J. Brunner reviews two areas of research concerning the link between residential location and school quality: (1) the long-standing and growing literature on the effects of a residentially based...